Double weave book took just two days to complete – including the weaving. It is woven on a Knitters Loom with 2nd heddle on 7.5 reeds. Half the warp and all of the weft is in my yarn in spun on a drop spindle on the river Nene last year – see Water Yarn blog […]
Long draw on a drop spindle was Mary’s challenge at Woolly Day. If you want to learn how to do this then the latest edition of Yarnmaker tells you how. Mary did very well with her new 70m Ashford spindle – she came with her Grandma who is spinning on her great aunts’ wheel. I […]
These two young men soon got to grips with the drop spindle at Open Farm Sunday- and bought one each!
You can meet this delightfully informative and entertaining visitor from the Tudor period at lunch time on 8th April at Loddington Visitor Centre* when provides a fun interlude to our learn to long draw workshop. Elizabeth will give a 45 minute talk; she arrives dressed in Tudor clothes with three baskets of ‘things’ along with her […]
Five more ladies learned long draw today – on drop spindles this time. I demonstrated long draw on a wheel just to get the message in – If you can spin long draw you can spin on anything, and spin any fibre! I had to try very hard not to be distracted by the lovely yarns […]